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Absolutely marvelous Warren. Thnx for sharing. I am also thinking of mounting wheels from an RS3. Given that RS3's rears are 8in. ET 50, I will get those, to avoid possible rubbing.
Can't wait to read your impressions on the new wheels.

Enjoy your car mate!

Here's a photo of the wheels on a S3 SB from a German forum. The guy has lowered the front by 20mm with Eibach springs.

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Absolutely marvelous Warren. Thnx for sharing. I am also thinking of mounting wheels from an RS3. Given that RS3's rears are 8in. ET 50, I will get those, to avoid possible rubbing.
Can't wait to read your impressions on the new wheels.

Enjoy your car mate!

Here's a photo of the wheels on a S3 SB from a German forum. The guy has lowered the front by 20mm with Eibach springs.

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Thanks for sharing, interesting to see how it looks. Front desperately needs dropping the 20mm. Looking nice & flush.

Oofft! They'll look great as I think 19's just look so much better on the S3. Keeping it real and OEM, good work fella.

Be interested to know offline the hassle you had not having the standard rims on at time of trade in. My experience is they don't even look at the car. I sold the original BE 7 arm twin spokes and despite the number of BE's with them, there never seems to be a set for sale. The S3 is getting changed later this year, more than likely traded in, and I'm planning on using the winters, S Line /RS6's in anthracite.

Here's a photo of the wheels on a S3 SB from a German forum. The guy has lowered the front by 20mm with Eibach springs.

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Hello mate, have you got a link to the original post? Great stance and almost looks as those the back has been lowered also. If I can accomplish the same stance with just front lowered on Eibach's with my 19's, I may just go for that!

Hello mate, have you got a link to the original post? Great stance and almost looks as those the back has been lowered also. If I can accomplish the same stance with just front lowered on Eibach's with my 19's, I may just go for that!

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Right then dawgs, I'm pleased to say that due to working with a very ethical seller I now have my RS3 rims.

Seems once they were sold (to me), that he received a barrage of people who were suddenly interested and prepared to pay up, but the guy was an absolute top man and said the shake of his hand is bond! Full of win.

Anyhooooo, back to the plot.

Rolling on 18's looked something like this:

And rolling on RS3 19" rims looks like this:

And who says an inch can't make a difference!!

The 19's just look right.

There is very little difference other than the extra inch, but I've taken a few side shots to give some further perspective of the change.

Here are the 18's side on

And the 19's

Granted, again it's a subtle difference, but one that takes it from looking like the wheels are just slightly to small, to making them right. The touch of extra dish just removes the slight flatness from the cars side on profile.

So I've spent a wodge of cash, and am I happy? To be fair I am. Other than the 25mm front lowering to be done at APS in the next couple of weeks it is about right cosmetically. I have one further little mod to make in the next couple of weeks to the looks, but I'll keep that in the bag for now!!!

OEM+ all the way!

18 & 19 side by side: hard to tell a big difference, but the perspective of the 18 being closer to the camera doesn't help

It's all good mate got all the gadgets sorted that I wanted fbmsw, cruise and Bluetooth. Just waiting for little bit of funds to fit my front s-line bumper rear black edition and I would like a set of alloys like yours but we will see. It's the Gf birthday this weekend going to Paris so have to hold off for a little while.

Bugger !!!!!.....I just tell myself that my Speedlines look better than any other wheel, and then you do this and totally blow that out of the water.

I'll have to start listening to Mrs Shadowman when she says that 1 inch can make a difference ).....those look absolutely perfect in my eyes.

The 18's were too flat in profile and too small, but the slight dish, the extra inch and consequently the slimmer edge to the spokes just makes them look superb !!..and they don't get lost with the black colour of the car either.

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